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About Microsoft

 Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) (4338), or often just MS, is an American multinational computer technology corporation with 79,000 employees in 102 countries and global annual revenue of US $51.12 billion as of 2007. Founded to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s. The company released an initial public offering (IPO) in the stock market, which, due to the ensuing rise of the stock price, has made four billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees. Throughout its history the company has been the target of criticism for various reasons, including monopolistic business practices—both the U.S. Justice Department and the European Commission, among others, brought Microsoft to court for antitrust violations and software bundling.

 

Microsoft has footholds in other markets besides operating systems and office suites, with assets such as the MSNBC cable television network, the MSN Internet portal, and the Microsoft Encarta multimedia encyclopedia. The company also markets both computer hardware products such as the Microsoft mouse and home entertainment products such as the Xbox, Xbox 360, Zune and MSN TV.

 

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1. “ Microsoft can make more money as a cloud provider than as a licensed server provider. ”

   In How the Cloud Will Disrupt the IT Status Quo

2. “ Regrettably, based on Microsoft/Danger's latest recovery assessment of their systems, we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device – such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos – that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger. ”

   In T-Mobile: Microsoft Lost All the Sidekick Backups

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2. Washington Tax Break Proposal Nears Decision

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Mar 8 2010) Cloud Computing

   ...state, which had seen a boom in mission-critical projects in Quincy and Wenatchee in 2006 and 2007. Microsoft cited the tax issue in its decision to migrate its Windows Azure cloud computing service out of Was... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Microsoft   Yahoo

3. Microsoft ‘All In’ on Container-Powered Cloud

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Mar 4 2010) Cloud Computing

   Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today emphasized that “when it comes to the cloud, we are all in.” He shared that... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Amazon.com   Kevin Timmons   Google

4. Microsoft’s Timmons: ‘Challenge Everything’

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Mar 3 2010) Power and Cooling

   The building blocks for Microsoft’s data center of the future can be assembled in four days, by one person. The two data center conta... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Kevin Timmons   Yahoo   Microsoft

5. Rethinking IT

   Explore Article Forbes.com (Feb 22 2010) Cloud Computing

   ...uture they hold the potential to completely reshape computing. What used to be a world dominated by Microsoft or IBM could well transform into one dominated by middleware that reaches well beyond a corporation... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   IBM   Forbes   Oracle

6. Yahoo Opens New Nebraska Data Center

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Feb 18 2010) Construction

   ...Similar to other Midwest deals that were negotiated earlier with Google in Council Bluffs, Iowa and Microsoft in West Des Moines, Yahoo selected Nebraska for state tax incentives, low energy costs and a qualit... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Microsoft   Google   Yahoo

7. The Green Data Center Strategies of Web Giants

   Explore Article Earth2Tech (Feb 18 2010) Power and Cooling , Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers

   ...ling costs. In Dublin, Ireland, the site of another Live Services and Azure cloud computing center, Microsoft is using the region’s climate to forego powering up its cooling systems up to 95 percent of the tim... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Department of Energy   Google   Yahoo

8. 6 Nuclear Power Startups To Watch

   Explore Article Earth2Tech (Feb 17 2010) Nuclear

   ... reactor that doesn’t need to be refueled, or have its waste disposed of. The startup also has deep Microsoft roots — it’s a spin-off of Intellectual Ventures, the think tank founded by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, and Bill Gates is a principal owner. Those deep-pocket backers could be useful... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Greentech Media   Department of Energy   Los Alamos National Laboratory

9. OnStar Cio's Career Success Is No Accident

   Explore Article Computerworld (Feb 16 2010)

   ...ifying Risk Management: Is Your Company Measuring Up? Register Now Comparing Research In Motion and Microsoft Mobile Solutions This paper compares the Research In Motion BlackBerry solution with the Microsoft® mobile solution by analyzing features of the user experience and the... Data in Action: Making the... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Interactive Data Corporation   Forrester Research   Microsoft

10. Firms Told To Take Ownership Of Carbon Management

    Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Feb 15 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Emissions

    ...ck in September last year the Carbon Disclosure Project announced it was partnering with Accenture, Microsoft and SAP in order to establish a new global climate change data reporting platform. In October CA... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Cisco   CA   Carbon Reduction Commitment

11. SGI Cyclone Offers HPC in the Cloud

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Feb 15 2010) Cloud Computing

    ...rse. Last August, Linux cluster provider Penguin Computing announced Penguin On Demand. This month, Microsoft boosted its HPC cloud profile by giving away Azure compute time for free to engineers and scientist... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Amazon.com   Interactive Data Corporation   Microsoft

12. APC plans new push into containerized data centers

    Explore Article IDG News Service (Feb 12 2010) Cloud Computing

    ...r recovery, particularly for companies that operate where natural disasters like earthquakes occur. Microsoft has even floated the idea of putting a containerized data center in every town to deliver its onlin... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   IBM   Interactive Data Corporation   Sun Microsystems

13. Top Data Center Groups Meet, Discuss Efficiency

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Feb 4 2010) Servers

    ...s a dramatic change from a year ago, when the industry was fragmented,” said Christian Belady of Microsoft. “All these organizations are starting to speak the same language and work together effectively. Al... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   The Green Grid   Uptime Institute   ASHRAE

14. Microsoft joins the data center climate-matching crowd - by Doug Mohney

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Feb 3 2010)

    On the Emerald Isle – and how appropriate is that for a green IT story? – Microsoft is waxing poetically about the efficiencies it is getting because of Ireland's climate. It'... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Doug Mohney   New York Times   Microsoft

15. Washington State Revisits Data Center Tax Break

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Feb 1 2010) Cloud Computing

    ...nter development in the state, which had seen a boom in mission-critical projects in 2006 and 2007. Microsoft cited the tax issue in its decision to migrate its Windows Azure cloud computing service out of Was... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Yahoo   Microsoft

16. Manos Goes Mobile, Takes Post at Nokia

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jan 31 2010)

    ... been a regular speaker at major industry conferences and events. Manos came to Digital Realty from Microsoft, where he served as General Manager of Data Center Services for Global Foundation Services, and was... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Digital Realty   Apple   Microsoft

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